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Background

Sá Carneiro was born in Porto, Vitória, the third of the five children of lawyer José Gualberto Chaves Marques de Sá Carneiro (born 31 August 1897 in Barcelos) and wife Maria Francisca Judite Pinto da Costa Leite (born 29 March 1908) of the Counts of Lumbrales in Spain.

Career

A lawyer by training, Sá Carneiro became a member of the puppet National Assembly in 1969[4] and, in turn, one of the leaders of the "Liberal Wing" which attempted to work for the gradual transformation of António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorship into a Western European democracy.

Dependent to a considerable extent on Sá Carneiro's personal popularity, the Democratic Alliance was unable to maintain its momentum in the wake of his death. Faced with a national crisis, the public rallied behind the incumbent President, António Ramalho Eanes, who easily defeated the Alliance candidate in the presidential election a few days later.

The airport where Sá Carneiro was heading has been named after him as Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport, despite objections[by whom?] that it would be in bad taste to name an airport after someone who died in a plane crash.

Family

He was married to Isabel Maria Ferreira Nunes de Matos (born Porto, Miragaia, 1 October 1936), and had five children:

Francisco Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro, unmarried and without issue

Isabel Maria Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro, unmarried and without issue

José Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (born Porto, Cedofeita, 1 April 1963), married in Mealhada, Luso, on 8 September 1991 Isabel Maria Guedes de Macedo Girão (born Porto, Ramalde, 25 January 1965), and had an only daughter:

Pedro Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (born Porto, 12 September 1964), married to Maria Benedita de Matos Chaves Pinheiro Torres, of the Barons of a Torre de Pero Palha, born on 28 May 1967, and had an only daughter:

Despite having an anti-collectivist and anti-statist party with an emphasis on personal rights and duties that was responsible for privatizing the industrial sectors nationalized during the revolutionary period,[8] he increased social spending during his term,[9] supported land reform and its redistribution in Alentejo[10] and he was proud that his party had been adopted by the working, middle-classblue-collar worker and middle-low class workers and that his party defended "the construction of a socialist society in liberty".[11] Due to all these specificities, he called his party's ideology "Portuguese Social Democracy".

↑"X CONGRESSO da TSD"(PDF).<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> pg. 6: «Sá Carneiro sabia que não há modelos de ideário político que se transponham mecanicamente de umas sociedades para as outras. Foi assim que, embora tomando em consideração o pensamento social democrata reformista de teóricos da Europa germânica e anglo-saxónica, concebeu um projecto de social democracia adaptado à idiossincrasia do povo português e à sua tradição histórica, tão marcada de experiência personalista.» («Sá Carneiro knew that there were not models of political ideary that transposed mechanically from some societies for the others. It was like this that, though taking in consideration the social democratic Reformist thought of the theoreticians of Germanic and Anglo-SaxonEurope, conceived a social democracy project adapted to the idiosyncrasy of the Portuguese people and to its historical tradition, so marked by the personalist experience.»)

↑"O Populismo Laranja (The Orange Populism)".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> (Portuguese), o António Maria blog, third paragraph: «Em primeiro lugar, porque a matriz ideológica e social do PPD-PSD é geneticamente populista, na modulação muito própria que lhe foi dada desde o início por Francisco Sá Carneiro» ("In the first place, because the ideological and social matrix of the PDP-SDP is genetically populist, in the very specific modulation that was given to it since the beginning by Francisco Sá Carneiro")